Lies You Believe About Publishing
I get a lot of emails from other writers asking for advice, and most of the time I have no idea what to tell them. Honestly, I’m making things up as I go along, fumbling around the same as everyone...
View ArticleIsuckitis
We have a word in my writing group called isuckitis. I think every writer experiences this. What is it? A condition. A sickness. A mood. It happens to a lot to writers. It means when you look at the...
View ArticleThe Biggest Lie in Publishing History
Last week I wrote a long, emotional post on my private blog. I put up that post on my private blog because I was afraid to talk about those feelings in public, and I was afraid to say that I’ve been...
View ArticleThe Difficulty, But Necessity of Being Content No Matter What
I have to talk about something or I’m going to explode. It has a little bit to do with publishing, but not really. It’s so much deeper than that. I’ve been through a lot in the past year. I’ve signed a...
View ArticleWhy You Shouldn’t Fear Failure
The problems of failure feel like huge ships crashing into cliffs. They feel like rot. I think when we start out with a dream and our ideas are sparkly and wonderful and exciting, it is easy to forget...
View ArticleHow to be Happy and Can You Really Achieve it Long-Term?
Ask some of my friends and they’ll tell you I’ve had the crappiest winter ever. As a general rule, I hate December through March, and March is only okay because my birthday happens to land on the first...
View ArticleWhat I Used to Care About
If you had asked me four years ago what was important to me in my publishing career, my list would have been very different from what it is now. Seeing my books in a bookstore was deeply important to...
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